Bolster-stake holder.



G. FAUST.

BOLSTBR STAKE HOLDER.

' APPLICATION FILED OUT 2 SHEETS-SHEET 1.

G. FAUST. BOLSTER STAKE HOLDER.

APPLIOATION FILED OCT. 9, 1913.

1,082,073. Patented Dec. 23, 1913.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 2.

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CASJPEB EAUSI, OF OSHKOSH, WISCONSIN.

BOLSTER-STAKE HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

' Patented Dec. 23, 1913.

Application filed October 9, 1913. Serial No. 794,191.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CASPER FAUST, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Oshkosh, in the county of Winnebago and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bolster- Stake Holders; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

The object of my invention is to provide a simple, economical and effective releasable bolster-stake holder for attachment to flat cars or the like, the same being an improvement of that general type of stake holders for which an application for patent was filed by me April 11, 1913, Serial No. 7 60,457

With the above object in view the invention consists in certain structural elements and combination of parts as hereinafter set forth with reference to the accompanying drawings and subsequently claimed.

In the drawings Figure 1 represents a side elevation of one end of a flat car having attached to its side sill a bolster stake holder embodying the features of my invention, the said holder being shown in the process of a releasing operation through manual manipulation, the operator being clear of the ends of the logs and upon the same side of the car that the logs will fall, it being further understood that both the side sills of the car are equipped with a pair of such bolster stake holders; Fig. 2, a detailed cross-section of a portion of the car illustrating the stake holder in elevation, the section being indicated by line 2-2 of Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a plan view of the stake-holder with parts broken away and in section; Fig. 4, a sectional plan view of one of the bolster stake holders showing its application to a transversely disposed bolster block, which blocks, in some instances, are fitted to the floor of the car to form a bed for the load of timber, logs, or analogous freight, and Fig. 5, a plan view of another form of stake holder.

Referring by characters to the drawings, 1 represents the side-sill of a flat car provided with the usual flooring, it being understood that the side sills may be formed from either wood or pressed steel. Fitted to the side sill 1 adjacent to each end of the car is a bolster bracket having a base-plate 2, which base-plate is secured to the sill by two series of retaining bolts 2, and extending from the base-plate are cheek-plates 3, 3, which cheek-plates form the side-walls of stake-sockets, the rear wall being formed by the base-plate portion of the bracket. The end faces of the cheek-plates 3, 3, form a seat for a saddle-plate 6, which saddle-plate is adapted to bridge said cheek-plates to form one wall of a rectangular stake-pocket. The saddle is also provided with projecting side lugs 7, which side lugs form retainers for links 8, the links being secured by fingers 7 which project from the lugs and are bent in hook form over said links, the ends of the fingers being fitted in transverse channels with which the lug ends are provided. Thus these links are permanently secured to the saddle. Each of the said links, in turn, is connected to end links 9 by links 9, the rounded ends of which intermediate links that pass through the links 8 being fitted into grooves 7 with which the lugs are provided, whereby said intermediate links are permanently held in the desired position with relation to the ends of the saddle. Each end link 9 is fitted over a cleat 10, these cleats being extended from the cheekplates and are formed with tapered faces which incline outwardly, whereby said links may be readily shed from the cleats when desired. One of the end links 9 carries a vertically extended stripper-pin l1 and both of said links are held in position upon the cleats by means of pins 12, 12. The pin 12, in this instance, is adapted to be fitted permanently, whereby a shackle connection between the bolster bracket and saddle is effected and the pin 12 is designed to be removed, whereby the saddle is permitted to swing free from the check-plates of the bracket co-incident to the release of a con fined bolster stake A, which bolster stake, as shown, is fitted within the bracket socket.

The companion bolster stakes are secured at their upper ends by separable stake-chains or cables 13, as best shown in Fig. 2. Each chain is permanently secured to its respective stake by a clevis-link 13 and one of the chain sections terminates with a key-hole coupling link 14 for the reception of the end link 14 of the opposite chain section, or any one of the succeeding links of said chain section, depending upon the desired tautness of the completed stake-chain. Thus it will be seen that the two sections of stake-chains can be adjusted as to slack and separated by the key-hole slot link 14:, operating in conjunction with any one of the end links of the opposite chain section.

hen it is desired to release the load confined between the bolster stakes, as best shown in Figs. 1 and 2, after the operator has selected to which side of the car the load willbe deposited, the locking pins 12 which confine the end links carrying the stripperpins 11 are removed. Thereafter the operator, standing clear of the ends ofthe logs, aflixes a releasing cable or bar 16 to the adjacent pin 11 and, by a slight movement, strips the link from its engagement with the cleat 10. Hence the saddle is free to swing outwardly from the cheek-plates due to the force exerted by the load and the stake being thus freed will permit the logs to drop as desired.

It is understood that the socket bracket at the opposite end of the car is similarly manipulated.

Fig. t illustrates the stake socket applied to a transverse bolster block B and in such instances the base of the bracket is provided with backwardly extended flanges 2", constituting in connection with the base portion 2 a socket for the end of the bolster block, the flanges 2 being secured thereto by transverse bolts, as shown. The bracket in this form of my invention is otherwise a duplicate of that shown and described in Figs. 1, 2 and 3 of the drawings, with the exception that in this instance one of the flanges 2 is provided with a projecting ear 17. The stripper-pin 11 of the link 9 in this case has fitted thereover an auxiliary link 1.8, which link is also fitted over the lug 12 that serves as a keeper for the link 9, the two links being thus locked to the cleat 10 by the pin 12. The auxiliary link 18 constitutes one member of a chain or cable 19, which chain or cable extends parallel with the bolster block to the opposite side of the car and is provided with an end link that is fitted over the adjacent ear 17 of the oppo site bolster bracket. This end-link is confined by a key 20 and when it is desired to release the stake the operator first removes the pin 12 which confines the auxiliary link 18 and its pin-connected link 9. Thereafter the operator passes to the opposite side of the car and, after removing the key 20, a side swishing motion is impartedto the chain or cable 19, whereby a link 9 is released and thus the stake will drop from its socket as the saddle 6 swings free, the said saddle being permanently held in suspension by the shackle connection upon its opposite side.

From the foregoing description it is apparent that these socket brackets and connected mechanism can be utilized for either right or left manipulation, the only requirement being the change of position with relation to the stripper-pin carried by the re movable series of links.

Fig. 5 shows a stake holder wherein single links 17 are utilized in connection with the saddle, in place of a series of such links, which construction in some instances is desirable, being cheaply manufactured and at the same time effective.

I claim: h

1. A bolster stake holder comprising a bracket having cheek-plates. projecting therefrom, a saddle adapted to abut the end faces of the cheek-plates, cleats extending from the cheek-plates, two series of links permanently secured to the saddle, meansfor securing the end link of one series to an adjacent cleat, and means for temporarily securing the end link of the opposite series to an adjacent cleat.

2. A bolster stake holder comprising a bracket having cheek-plates projecting therefrom, a saddle adapted to abut the end faces of the cheeleplates, cleats extending from the cheek-plates, two. series of links permanently secured to the saddle, means for securing the end link of one series to an adjacent cleat, means for temporarily securing the end link of the opposite series to an adjacent cleat, and a stripper-pin extending from the end link of the temporarily secured link series.

3. A bolster stake holder comprising a bracket having a base-plate attachable to a car or other conveyance, cheek-plates proj ecting from the baseeplate, a saddle-plate adapted to abut the end faces of the cheek plates to form a stake-socket in connection with the base-plate and cheek-plates, side lugs projecting'from the saddle, links permanently secured tov the side lugs, a series of links connecting the permanently secured links, an apertured cleat extendingfrom each cheek-plate adapted to engage the end link of each series, pins fitted in the cleat apertures for locking the end links, and means in connection with one of the end links for stripping the same from its cleat after the link-retaining pin has been removed.

4:. A bolster stake holder comprising a sill, a bracket secured thereto having projecting cheek-plates, a saddle-plate adapted to bridge the cheek-plates, a section of chain permanently secured to one of the cheekplates and to the saddle-plate, a cleat ex have hereunto set my hand at Milwaukee in tending from the other cheek-plate, a second the county of Milwaukee and State of Wis- 10 secltifim 01f chaindpermanelgtlly secureg to salild consin in the presence of two Witnesses. sacc eate an remova secure to t e last me htioned cheek-plate? and means for CASPER FAUST' stripping the removable chain section from Witnesses: the cleat from a distance. N. E. OLIPHANT,

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I M. E. DOWNEY.

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